Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-08-06
LEEBSXALL.

4 - oogeeher, which, In spite Of the stee
Vushs md great poiytechnlc school -
4 onbllnhod In their midst, have retained, mort
! - almost sny other American town, {
eualas and foreign flavor.
Oas clear sunday morning in June. whet
~ church-bells wore ringing and the gaylJ
osessed German girls were tr0oping dowr
eAesAady street., old Amy stood waiting fol
- q the door. Amy We Q woman o.
( Whose early days ugly stories were told, bu'
- W. nov Q " bakaert, or convert The
pooe old creature lived In . hut near the river,
and was supported BY charity. Her one oc-
cupatio0 end pleasure wss 10 60 to church,
Vkeee she always sat humbly In the back
poW apd doxed most of the sermons and
pnysr. suspect, being quite out Of her
roooh.
TAers wsa peculiar, friendly significance
n ner wrink led face to-day.
"1sisht du heit In der Leebsma,l :? ?" she
vania Dutch.
"No WI. s.re going to church. Whist is
The I,eebsmall 2"
she explained that II was love feast OF
The Morsviana aud that they had many
Lesbsmalls IN June one for the "great
girlA /" aud this one to-day. which Was
held by all those who wished to send mis-
siouaries out the Western frontier.
But they will not admit ua We are not
each +! eiss machts nicts Die door ist
often to allie kinner des Yaans (children
Of Jesus). Va, sell ist allies " abe ex.
claimed, devoutly.
Tho feast was held in the afternoon. A
ravian family, repeated Anny's invitation.
Tho meal, she told ua was not held sacred
like the Lords supper, only In 30 far as II
expressed the brotherhood sud equality In
Christ of ali who Joined in It
That afternoon, therefore, We walked
down the steep. slate paved streets To the
square occupied by the Moravian churches
and schOola Here, nearlv . century and
. half ago, their bishop Nitschmann, built
hut in the unbroken wilderness, ana De.
gan the work Of teaching the Indiana We
passed queer quadrangle with mossy sun
dial in the middle, about which rise the
massive stone buildings erected by the
United Brethren. They are strengthened by
huge buttresses and were apparently in
tended to last - long "a the hills on which
they stand. Here are the Schwester and
Bruder houses, with their long, bare corri-
d0rs and exquisitely clean little spsrtments
in which the holy Moravisns once lived
opart in cOnventusl seclusiOn, and the
Gemein house, which was given up 70 the
few married folk.
From one OF these a. bcisnt gray buildings
Q little bent figure fitted nov out into the
III
vivan An the strength of her life 70 mission
work in Africa aud India Now, IN the
oi her great age, the church had
opened this quiet retreat for her In which to
Hha crent on slowly. step bv stem keeping
In tha mt sunijsht 10 warm her chilled
hlood. Death had the poor old woman al.
mort altOuether in his clutch her logs were
palsied and shriveled. But out OF the
= rink lea her ewes still looked with noble
They told of namsless hard
Ihipe, OF iudomitable patience. They be /
Titled these comfortable, we'll fed lives OF /
oura
i noticed that the men and women who |
pessad. looked after the little black figure
creepinp along by the wall to the chu rch q /
The stiti neck ed Jevn Of old probably did on /
their prophets, who lived on locusts and /
Wild honey and wore lestberu Rirdlea They /
Aid not upderetapd them tbey did not mean
10 be ike them, Hut their own chances for
Heaveu. somehow, were better becanse-ttnst
Iheee few bOlv people in ttarvmd.
= TINT 49, :t.ees from her dirtv little
A f.r;sme olI Amy. blesr eysd and ragged,
ian'Hs ,ass, o'u Har i,ie had No noble mean.
thets'c. hoe hrsin va, ciondv her ideas few.
~. ,ne.... no. ~ ,nen, w.s th.t sven aha vss
ons NJ the % Inner des Yssus; 20 that he
III "a,,ad ber nv name. ~ he had called
that other Msydaiens long ago
IT, .,nnrch ,s a ,.rve square building. |
,.,,, ,,,., siraiyhI mint and chOir lott com
mon in the early psrt of this century. Ons
or two po,s of roses stood on Q table In the
e"i tars Ths s neonIs came in eroup~. with a
niaasad look 81 Ak pe,tatiOu on their fscsa
Ehsv took their sests indiscriminstely, and
did not hesitate 10 smile or whisper or to
exchsnpe a hearty hand shake Our well-to-
40 naivSh0r drove 10 the door in her car
.,.,s snS c.ma in rnstIin9 In n stifi silk A:
mi sha sst in the hack pew beside Anny,
vho for once. was wide awake
Thara we're other richly dressed mstrous,
.ra MANY . lean. stoonp6 mother. in her one
s,r,d ao.n who bad stopned work for this
INA restfnI hour of the week. There were
stout. shar n featured business men. Hoes.
the millionaire mill-ownsr, and meek little
jacob, the barrier tnere were YOUNG in Ems
WIN soIi, peacny cueek' aho olu . ,si'S ~
aries who had starved ana proachSd ior
oiXtV wears; there were Q lew carefully
ujovad and crayatted Young men, and many
ns,.s,. "h;iS,an v,itS sm,iiny hahv tsceaL
htMe ,r on '', ". .I...a.. ~hoIIv cSo,., tha
as. ;n,n;~.' ~ ,Sa Hvmr. and chsnta With
Ero1, r.rvn. Snts;ye the treas rnstied in
sHa snn.hins' and the frash wind carried the
s~...n"a NJ tha 0srdans filled With roase
fr,ss. M.fo y. ;no ;uso H.. "hn,ch Tnare ma. =
s.Nv:, aarvant hnt short for thia VAS 4
P,sIr,, To- tha nIeSvin0 ~ brotherhood not
Jug %nISshin 'AT Than |. mrssionsrv (avarv Mo.
rov,.o ~. s.niras to ha q m,ssionsYy. at home or
= ~, - ,hD naaJ nj ma; a. the Wast
sDIoso1 .I.u y, -, 'no n1as"H Chrs. .Ionos,"s ot
SIn ,s .Ioht,o. s,pn n sna osnh.,na haiiNths
no a,. ,'. u.,. ~ ";v;,i, ,,,on nsnesd hv the
nLst outPos'" "a ''i'"'''o'A P'~ ~
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snt htti1 SUI o' eAro.stn, ,o ~,' .;sa, sI. ,pan
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on.Su ant au' .,.r,M q. ,is,ia ps,ch,st nf lace